I went back to the Communications Office/Press Room the other day and got to meet Diana Ott and several of the web people in Louisville. They were all really cool and it sounds like some things are in the works for the PC(USA) internet presence.
Diana wanted people to know that there are hundreds of GA photos online for anyone’s use at: http://www.pcusa.org/ga218/photos/index.htm
That’s Adam Walker Cleaveland on my left.
From a Layman article about the GA commissioners:
“160
The number of staff members assigned to the 15 General Assembly committees. That’s more than 10 per committee. Many of those staff members will lobby for their favorite causes.”
Wow, the Layman news reporting is so good that they can predict the future! Because they would never interject their personal opinion into a news article, instead of documented and sourced facts.
“16
The number of staff members scheduled to work on peace and justice issues - generally a catchall for liberal social agendas.”
Even if they are right on this one, it’s still opinion or at best an unsupported speculative conclusion.
“2
The number of staff members assigned to work with evangelism and church growth in a denomination that has shrunken from 4.2 million members in 1965 to 2.8 million members in 2006.”
Hmmmm… I met at least three denominational people yesterday working the the New Church Development office and with the website Presbygrow (which has as its tagline “Growing healthy, missional churches in the PC(USA)”). And that doesn’t include Eric Hoey or anyone else from the Evangelism office.
And just for your information, the Presbyterian Lay Committee started in 1965 - the exact year they reference above as the start of our numerical decline. Coincidence?
Over at our podcast we have published interviews/conversations with all four moderator candidates. My personal thanks go out to all four candidates and to also to the DAIO co-hosts: David Ealy, Zach Sasser, and Camille LeBron-Powell. They did the lion’s share of the work on this, since I sat out due to my involvement with Bruce Reyes-Chow’s campaign.
Since I sat out, I had the chance to listen to the interviews for the first time just as our regular listeners do. I am really pleased with the caliber of candidates we have running for moderator. And I am also really pleased that we were able to do this project. This is a unique chance for any Presbyterian to listen to the candidates before GA. It is one thing to read what they have written, it is another to hear short statements from them at the Assembly, and it’s a whole step up to hear them for 30-45 minutes talk about what they think and believe.
If you, dear reader, know of any commissioners to GA then point them to the interviews so they can get to know their moderator candidates.
Calling all Prebyterian bloggers, Tweeters, and other Web 2.0 junkies or wannabes! It’s time to do General Assembly - Web 2.0 style. Here are a couple of ways I envision:
1) Let’s have a Presbyterian bloggers event. I don’t know when, I don’t know where, but I would be pumped to meet other bloggers face to face. Does anyone local know a good place that we could hang out or does anyone have access to space that we could inhabit for a moment?
2) Twitter. I’ll propose that we use the tag #GA218 for GA tweets. That way we can follow what’s going on with Tweetscan.
3) Live blogging. I’m new to this and the only service I’ve used is shiftedit. I’ve started a liveblog here. It’s possible (probable) we will want multiple liveblogs for various meetings. It’s also possible (probable) that one of you knows a better way to do this. If so, speak up!
Ok, bloggers! It’s time to start the Midnight Bark! This will only work if word gets around. If you think this is a worthy endeavor then share the linklove and drop a post on your blog spreading the word. I’m happy to start compiling a list of all the bloggers that are going to be at GA, so that we can get connected and follow each other’s experiences.
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